I tried learning the solo from Baker Street this week

allen

It turns out that there are a variety of transcriptions of this on youtube and even the best one admits to not being certain.

Surprisingly tricky to play as there are quite a few pre-bends/half bends with varying styles of vibrato thrown in plus the rhythm isn't entirely straight.

Anyhow, I made a youtube playlist of the tutorials that I could find so chucking it on here in case anyone finds it useful.

I'm an intermediate player and I do recommend it as a development exercise - easy enough to start and musical enough to be satisfying once you've got it.

CaseOfAce

I've been prepping this one for future use in the band - and I'm still not sure whether I'll approximate the solo or do my own thing yet. It's not a fiddly solo - just tricky to remember all the micro bends etc...

I heard the demo version of the track yesterday - and very much reminded what a terrific difference the production can make on a song. I don't know who the producer was but by god he sprinkled some fairy dust on that track - with or without Bob Holness playing sax on it.

Jalapeno

Guitar solo and/or the sax main melody ?

allen

Jalapeno said:

Guitar solo and/or the sax main melody ?

Guitar solo

Rocker

The guitar solo is pretty meaningless on it's own unless you happen to have a sax player in your band.  Far better to write or come up with a solo that is in the spirit and close to the original sax and guitar solo.

allen

Here's my attempt at it. Still not right, but after a while I usually give up!

digitalkettle

allen said:

Here's my attempt at it. Still not right, but after a while I usually give up!
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Sounds pretty close!

AsterixTG

Interesting - always a solo I loved but never bothered to try and pin down, but decided to last week coincidently.



Baker Street, Gerry Rafferty, Hugh Burns - Guitar Solo - YouTube

allen

AsterixTG said:

Interesting - always a solo I loved but never bothered to try and pin down, but decided to last week coincidently.



Baker Street, Gerry Rafferty, Hugh Burns - Guitar Solo - YouTube

Nice job!

AsterixTG

allen said:

AsterixTG said:

Interesting - always a solo I loved but never bothered to try and pin down, but decided to last week coincidently.



Baker Street, Gerry Rafferty, Hugh Burns - Guitar Solo - YouTube

Nice job!

Ta, tone isn't as gainy as it needs to be but it's alright.